{"product_id":"the-world-and-us-isbn-9781804292655","title":"The World and Us","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A restless visionary striving to realize the highest aspirations of modernity itself.\"\u003cbr\u003e–\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA radical re-envisioning of the human condition by the acclaimed Brazilian philosopher\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe World and Us, \u003c\/i\u003eRoberto Mangabeira Unger sets out to reinvent philosophy. His central theme is our transcendence, everything in our existence points beyond itself, and its relation to our finitude: everything that surrounds us, and we ourselves, are flawed and ephemeral.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe asks how we can live so that we die only once, instead of dying many small deaths; how we can breathe new life and new meaning into the revolutionary movement that has aroused humanity for the last three centuries, but that is now weakened and disoriented; and how we can make sense of ourselves without claiming for human beings a miraculous exception to the general regime of nature. For Unger, philosophy must be the mind on fire, insisting on our prerogative to speak to what matters most.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom this perspective, he redefines each of the traditional parts of philosophy, from ontology and epistemology to ethics and politics. He turns moral philosophy into an exploration of the contest between the two most powerful contemporary moral visions: an ethic of self-fashioning and non-conformity, and an ethic of human connection and responsibility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd he turns political philosophy into a program of deep freedom, showing how to democratize the market economy, energize democratic politics, and give the individual worker and citizen the means to flourish amid permanent innovation.\u003cb\u003ePrologue: Finitude and Transcendence in Human Experience\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur Dreamlike and Vertiginous Existence\u003cbr\u003ePhilosophy\u003cbr\u003eThis Book: Its Scope, Plan, and Character\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Ontology (as Natural Philosophy and Social Theory)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Study of What the World Is Like\u003cbr\u003eThe Rejection of Metaphysical Rationalism\u003cbr\u003eThe Philosophy of Deep Structure and Its Afterlife in Natural Science\u003cbr\u003eThe Philosophy of the Timeless One\u003cbr\u003eTemporal Naturalism\u003cbr\u003eMathematics: The World Emptied Out of Time and Phenomenal Particularity\u003cbr\u003eCausality and Time\u003cbr\u003eNo Kingdom within a Kingdom: Deep Structure, Dualism, and Temporal Naturalism\u003cbr\u003eThe Human Difference, without Dualism\u003cbr\u003eThe Message of This Ontology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Epistemology (as Inquiry into Inquiry)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpistemology and Its Discontents\u003cbr\u003eThe Denial of Finitude and Transcendence in Epistemology\u003cbr\u003eThe Mistakes of Epistemology Further Examined\u003cbr\u003eThe Agent of Inquiry and His Capabilities\u003cbr\u003eThe Idea of a Program of Inquiry\u003cbr\u003eThe First Crisis: Fundamental Physics and Its Denial of Time, Change, and Causality\u003cbr\u003eThe Second Crisis: The Social Sciences and the Suppression of Structural Vision\u003cbr\u003eThe Intellectual Division of Labor and the Marriage of Method to Subject Matter\u003cbr\u003eImplications for Natural Science\u003cbr\u003eImplications for the Social Sciences, the Normative Public Disciplines, and the Humanities\u003cbr\u003eGenius Reimagined\u003cbr\u003eA Coda to Epistemology: Art\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. The Human Condition: Becoming More\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHuman by Becoming More Godlike\u003cbr\u003eThe Hinge of Philosophy\u003cbr\u003eImpenetrable Darkness: The Amazing Situation\u003cbr\u003eFinitude: Groundlessness\u003cbr\u003eFinitude: Mortality\u003cbr\u003eTranscendence: Desire\u003cbr\u003eTranscendence: Imagination\u003cbr\u003eTranscendence: Refusal of Belittlement\u003cbr\u003eFinitude and Transcendence as Connecting Threads in the Human Condition\u003cbr\u003eFinitude and Transcendence Reinterpreted: The Semitic Monotheisms and Their Narrative of Redemption\u003cbr\u003eFinitude and Transcendence Reinterpreted: The Idea of One and the Timeless One\u003cbr\u003eThe Contradictory Requirements for Sustaining a Self\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Ethics (as Clarity about the Conduct of Life)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEthics and Its Work\u003cbr\u003eThe Christian Faith and the Conduct of Life\u003cbr\u003eThe Secular Romance\u003cbr\u003eThe School Philosophy\u003cbr\u003eFinding a Point of Departure in a Contemporary Contest of Moral Visions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Two Ways To Die Only Once\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Ethic of Self-fashioning and Non-conformity\u003cbr\u003eThe Ethic of Connection and Responsibility\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. The Unresolved Contest Between the Ethics of Self-Fashioning and of Connection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Dust of History: The United States, China, and the Two Ethics\u003cbr\u003eThe Twin Functional Imperatives of the Advanced Societies\u003cbr\u003eThe Impossible Synthesis between the Two Ethics\u003cbr\u003eA Duality in Our Moral Consciousness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Politics (as Struggle over the Future of Society)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinitude and Transcendence in Politics\u003cbr\u003eOur Moment in History and World Revolution\u003cbr\u003eThe Theory of Regimes: Imagining the Structure of a Society\u003cbr\u003eSources of a Direction\u003cbr\u003eA Direction: From Shallow Equality to Deep Freedom\u003cbr\u003eA Direction: Deep Freedom and Practical Empowerment in History\u003cbr\u003eA Direction: Deep Freedom and the Contradictions of the Self\u003cbr\u003eThe Haven and the Storm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. Politics: The Program of Deep Freedom\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Idea of an Institutional Program\u003cbr\u003eDemocratizing the Market Economy\u003cbr\u003eDeepening Democracy\u003cbr\u003eCohesion and Freedom: The Self-Organization of Civil Society\u003cbr\u003eEducation: Capability and Prophecy\u003cbr\u003eDeep Freedom and World Order\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex of Proper Names and Works\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex of Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e\"A restless visionary striving to realize the highest aspirations of modernity itself\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—William Connolly, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the few living philosophers whose thinking has the range of the great philosophers of the past.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Unger stakes out new discursive space that is neither simply left nor liberal, Marxist nor Lockean, anarchist nor Kantian . . . an emancipatory experimentalism toward ever-increasing democracy and individual freedom\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Cornel West\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Here something new has occurred: a philosophical mind out of the Third World turning the tables, to become synoptist and seer of the First.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Perry Anderson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What makes Unger different is his orientation toward the future rather than the past—his hopefulness.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Richard Rorty\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Unger insists on the need to refocus on what really matters, the human spirit.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—John Paul Rathbone, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brazil's answer to John Stuart Mill. A political philosopher extraordinaire.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Through a 49-year career spanning politics, law, social and political theory and philosophy, Unger has put forward a collection of searching inquiries meant to pierce the liberal mythos of necessary progress. Across dozens of books, including the recently published metaphysical tome \u003ci\u003eThe World and Us\u003c\/i\u003e, the Brazilian philosopher has tried to think beyond 20th-century categories through a series of questions.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Samuel McIlhagga, \u003ci\u003eUnHerd\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe World and Us\u003c\/i\u003e ruminates deeply while maintaining a readability often lacking in specialized, academic philosophy. Unger has written a book for the rest of us, after all. If he seeks our understanding, it's only so we might enjoy a better life ahead.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Michael Maiello, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Independent Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoberto Mangabeira Unger\u003c\/b\u003e is one of the leading philosophers and social thinkers in the world today. He is active in Brazilian public life and has served twice as Brazil's Minister of Strategic Affairs, charged with developing initiatives that signal a direction for his country. A polymath, he has written widely in legal, political, economic, and moral theory as well as in natural philosophy. Among his major writings are \u003ci\u003ePassion: An Essay on Personality, \u003c\/i\u003ea modernist view of human nature; \u003ci\u003eFalse Necessity, \u003c\/i\u003ea radical alternative to Marxist social theory; and, most recently, \u003ci\u003eThe Knowledge Economy, \u003c\/i\u003ea study of the unrealized potential of the new vanguard of production.\u003ci\u003e The World and Us \u003c\/i\u003eis the capstone of his lifework.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300751528165,"sku":"NP9781804292655","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781804292655.jpg?v=1767742308","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-world-and-us-isbn-9781804292655","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}